Beate Müller-Gemmeke

Beate Müller-Gemmeke
Beate Müller-Gemmeke
	Beate Müller-Gemmeke in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
Personal details
Born	7 October 1960 (age 64); Frankfurt, West Germany; (now Germany)
Political party	Greens
Children	2

Beate Müller-Gemmeke (born 7 October 1960) is a German politician. of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2009.^[1]

Early life and career

Müller-Gemmeke attended a grammar school in Böblingen until 1978, after which she trained as a teacher in Tübingen. In 1978, she obtained her entrance qualification for a university of applied sciences and studied social education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Work in Reutlingen from 1984 to 1988.

From 2002 until her election to the Bundestag, Müller-Gemmeke worked as a self-employed social pedagogue.

Political career

Müller-Gemmeke first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election.^[2] In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and the Committee on Petitions.^[3]^[4] For her group she is spokesperson for workers' rights and active labour market policy and coordinator in the Trade Union and Social Advisory Council.^[5]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann following the 2021 state elections, Müller-Gemmeke was a member of the working group on economic affairs, labor and innovation.^[6]^[7]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) on the national level following the 2021 German elections, Müller-Gemmeke was part of her party's delegation in the working group on labour policy, co-chaired by Hubertus Heil, Katharina Dröge and Johannes Vogel.^[8]

References

^ "Beate Müller-Gemmeke | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Infos zur Person". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "German Bundestag - Labour and Social Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ "German Bundestag - Petitions". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Die fachpolitischen SprecherInnen". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Koalitionsverhandlungen: Arbeitsgruppen Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg, press release of April 13, 2021.
^ Koalitionsverhandlungen: Arbeitsgruppen CDU Baden-Württemberg, press release of April 13, 2021.
^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.